{"id":760965,"date":"2020-07-17T08:40:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T12:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=760965"},"modified":"2020-07-17T08:41:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T12:41:38","slug":"heidi-stephenson-the-cow-beater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=760965","title":{"rendered":"A POEM: The Cow Beater (Heidi Stephenson)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very touching poem written by Heidi Stephenson from All-Creatures.org that was inspired by one of our stories: &#8216;Outrageous: Cow-Beating Video Thrown Out in Court on the Grounds it Would Encourage Undercover Filming in the Future&#8217; :<\/p>\n<p><strong>Three female cows,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>three tired, female cows,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>three bereaved, female cows<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Pregnancy \u2013 birthing\u2026loss<br \/>\nPregnancy \u2013 birthing\u2026loss<br \/>\nPregnancy \u2013 birthing\u2026loss<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>dare<\/em>\u00a0to RESIST<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>their slavemaster,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>the constant kidnapper,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>the killer<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>of their calves;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>the profiteering<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>milk snatcher,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>the \u201ccontract milker\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8211; their cruel<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>oppressor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And so he BEATS them,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>BEATS them<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>with a\u00a0<em>steel<\/em>\u00a0pipe,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>with hard\u00a0<em>stee<\/em>l<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u2026until they reel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Read the rest of her poem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.all-creatures.org\/poetry\/ar-cow-beater.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heidi has written many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.all-creatures.org\/poetry\/ar-stephenson-heidi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poems of compassion<\/a> dedicated to the non-human animals who share this planet with us and the people who fight for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very touching poem written by Heidi Stephenson from All-Creatures.org that was inspired by one of our stories: &#8216;Outrageous: Cow-Beating Video Thrown Out in Court on the Grounds it Would Encourage Undercover Filming in the Future&#8217; : Three female cows, three tired, female cows, three bereaved, female cows Pregnancy \u2013 birthing\u2026loss Pregnancy \u2013 birthing\u2026loss Pregnancy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":760966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,21,22,23,25],"tags":[26,27,30,31,35,37],"class_list":["post-760965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-kisnship","category-morality","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-compassion","tag-cruelty","tag-exploitation","tag-farming","tag-protection","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760969,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760965\/revisions\/760969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/760966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}